Nils Kolling

First Jan built an elegant model in several steps. it classifies trials as disengagement, and then takes out all task specific motiv. factor (such as reward, satiety or trial number) to look at task unrelated fluctation. resid. motivations autocorr shows it fluctates slowly

Plus a focus on new task design, cognitive modelling, gamification and exciting ideas of how to expand measuring peoples cognitive and physiological contexts and it's impact on behaviour. find a recent description of some of our approaches/ideas here: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

I also hope this paper will be interesting to people outside the field as doing an academic job is all about incremental goal pursuit and 90% completed tasks being worth nothing, which is what we investigate here!

They are however, a great entrypoint to a new lab and we have possibilities for funding for future positions after the duration of a fellowship.

And this is what it thinks I look like at work :

And this is what Dall-E thinks we do during brainscans:

We targeted two reasons for abandonment, 1) frustration with current goal and 2) tempting alternatives, both were signalled by key decision regions (striatum, vmPFC and ACC). Importantly, when people progressed towards their goal, decision networks and behaviour changed 2/6

This is a particularly attractive feature of french system that postdocs have a chance for fully permanent, research-only pos as tenured principal investigator with further career progress possible. CRCN at Inserm ( eva3-accueil.inserm.fr/sites… ) or CNRS ( cnrs.fr/en/competitive-entra… ).